The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.

To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating

You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.

I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together.

I don't want to redo what I've [just done]. I don't want to retread old ground.

I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

Later in the winter I'd tire of the snow, but Christmas snow was different.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!